City Reserve

Second favorite room from city 13 despite it being their easiest! Very fun theme thrown in to with a variety of puzzles for both lock and key enjoyers as well as room interaction puzzles! The puzzles mostly function out of the lack of light in the room which I won’t hold as a criticism but something that adds to the ambience and is used effectively. Our game guide was also incredibly nice in this experience, nicer than my guide playing the room the first time in save the city. I’ve found better experiences from the individual rooms rather than save the city, the 4+ hours of puzzles is probably equally draining to game guide as to the people playing the room. Would always recommend this room to people, especially those newer to escape rooms!

Another great room by City 13! Their scenery is really top notch in every room we've done! What's funny is that we have been going from their most challenging room to their least challenging, and our finish times have been reflecting that accurately. No matter what, though, it's been incredible! Another reviewer described this one as a bank themed type of room, and I agree with that! The staff was funny and friendly as usual!

City Reserve was my 2nd favorite of the 4 rooms of the Save the City marathon. It’s essentially a bank-themed escape room. Very solid puzzles and a final puzzle that I really enjoyed! A strange thing that stuck out was how one input device was used several times, but once the GM revealed that, it was easier to comprehend how to solve a series of puzzles. Felt surprisingly heisty for something that’s part of a superhero-themed adventure.

This is such a cool facility with a great overall theme that frequently gets recommended to me… but so far none of the rooms I’ve done have really impressive. The City Reserve is no different. There’s definitely overlap in the puzzle logic/design with their other rooms but there were still some great puzzles but also some confusing ones. Some of the mechanics were a bit fiddly and required a bit of additional physical manipulation to get things to open. I still give this room a thumbs up because the facility itself is amazing and the staff is great and despite not fully enjoying their rooms I still want to complete them all because it’s just such a cool concept.

This was a really cool experience. I’m sure the individual pieces are fine, but it was definitely worth doing the whole thing in one go. And the staff was excellent.